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What is post vaccination encephalitis?
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Inflammation of brai: It is an inflamation of the brain, specifically seen with smallpox or pertussis vaccine. Small pox is no longer used in the states and the pertussis vaccine has been purified so that we rarely see problems any more.
Answered 4/26/2013
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